There were tall college players who had range before 1986 — players like Larry Bird of Indiana State and Bob McAdoo of North Carolina, among others — but there was no extra-point value in having a big man stray too far from the basket too often.
As the association became more like a big business, it strayed further from its agrarian roots.
He was the class clown and a beloved hotel waiter during summers at a Catskills resort; he was kind to his dying mother and is a "big softy" when it comes to stray animals in need.
But this is such a big year for the surreal that one stray arm barely qualifies as unusual.
The programme has uncovered evidence that the situation is getting worse, with a big rise in calls to police about stray horses.
I am not a stray mule & gaudy caravan pulling a big skirt, open legs, a head of wire.
It's quite a big family event – some of my husband's family, and then my mum and her partner, and a few waif-and-stray friends.
A big advantage of this arrangement is that the measurement is scarcely disturbed by matrix effects (background absorption of water in IR measurements, stray light due to turbidity in the sample).
